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Which is aligned with US date formatting.

which only makes it confusing for the rest of the world

It's not that confusing if you know there are only 12 months. If it happened to occur on 2-4-22, then it would be pretty confusing.

its particularly bad because US dates are written with slashes. please leave dashes for ISO so we have some hope of understanding anything.

Just because you don’t seem to like it does not mean the US date format is invalid. It should be followed while in the US.

Or you could use a sane, unambiguous date format regardless of where you are in the world like 22 Feb 2022.

This is devolving into tribalism.